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Truth Be Told: A Novel
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Now a major Apple TV+ series starring Octavia Spencer and Aaron Paul—produced by Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine!

Serial meets Ruth Ware's In A Dark, Dark Wood in this inventive and twisty psychological thriller about a mega-hit podcast that reopens a murder case and threatens to unravel the carefully constructed life of the victim's daughter.
The only thing more dangerous than a lie...is the truth.

Josie Buhrman has spent the last ten years trying to escape her family and with good reason. After her father's murder thirteen years prior, her mother ran away to join a cult and her twin sister Lanie, once Josie's closest friend and confidant, betrayed her in an unimaginable way. Now, Josie has finally put down roots in New York, settling into domestic life with her partner Caleb, and that's where she intends to stay.

The only problem is that she has lied to Caleb about every detail of her past—starting with her last name.

When investigative reporter Poppy Parnell sets off a media firestorm with a megahit podcast that reopens the long-closed case of Josie's father's murder, questioning whether the wrong person may be behind bars, Josie's world begins to unravel. Meanwhile, the unexpected death of Josie's long-absent mother forces her to return to her Midwestern hometown where she must confront the demons from her past—and the lies on which she has staked her future.
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08/01/2017
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Kathleen Barber. (2017). Truth Be Told: A Novel. Unabridged Simon & Schuster Audio.

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Serial meets Ruth Ware's In A Dark, Dark Wood in this inventive and twisty psychological thriller about a mega-hit podcast that reopens a murder case and threatens to unravel the carefully constructed life of the victim's daughter.
The only thing more dangerous than a lie...is the truth.

Josie Buhrman has spent the last ten years trying to escape her family and with good reason. After her father's murder thirteen years prior, her mother ran away to join a cult and her twin sister Lanie, once Josie's closest friend and confidant, betrayed her in an unimaginable way. Now, Josie has finally put down roots in New York, settling into domestic life with her partner Caleb, and that's where she intends to stay.

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When investigative reporter Poppy Parnell sets off a media firestorm with a megahit podcast that reopens the long-closed case of Josie's father's murder, questioning whether the wrong person may be behind bars, Josie's world begins to unravel. Meanwhile, the unexpected death of Josie's long-absent mother forces her to return to her Midwestern hometown where she must confront the demons from her past—and the lies on which she has staked her future.
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        A true-crime podcast provides the catalyst for the reexamination of a murder in Barber’s inventive debut. In 2002, college professor Charles Buhrman was shot to death in the kitchen of his Elm Park, Ill., home. A 17-year-old neighbor, Warren Cave, was convicted of the murder, based on eyewitness testimony by Lanie, one of Charles’s teenage twin daughters. Charles’s death devastated his wife, Erin; Lanie; and her sister, Josie. Erin joined a cult, abandoning her daughters to her sister. The once-close twins became estranged—Lanie began to act out and use drugs, and she betrayed Josie, who ran away and changed her last name. In 2015, Josie’s quiet domestic life in New York with her boyfriend, Caleb Perlman, explodes when broadcaster Poppy Parnell launches a podcast dredging up the murder, claiming that Warren is innocent. And Josie is pulled back into the family drama following her mother’s sudden death. The intense plot and character studies are enhanced by an emotional look at the dynamics of a family forever scarred by violence. Agent: Lisa Grubka, Fletcher & Company.

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      • content: Narrator Rebekkah Ross keeps the listener's pulse racing with her multifaceted performance of a story that explores what happens when old wounds are ripped open again. When a popular podcast begins to reinvestigate the murder of a professor, his daughter, Josie Buhrman, discovers that running from a tragic past is pointless when everyone knows your story. It was Josie's testimony that put her father's accused killer behind bars, but new information leaves her questioning what she saw decades before. Previously released as ARE YOU SLEEPING, this gripping thriller is being re-released in conjunction with the upcoming Apple TV show. Ross's vivid narration captures the fear of a woman who is trapped in a horrifying spotlight. V.B. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
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Serial meets Ruth Ware's In A Dark, Dark Wood in this inventive and twisty psychological thriller about a mega-hit podcast that reopens a murder case and threatens to unravel the carefully constructed life of the victim's daughter.
The only thing more dangerous than a lie...is the truth.

Josie Buhrman has spent the last ten years trying to escape her family and with good reason. After her father's murder thirteen years prior, her mother ran away to join a cult and her twin sister Lanie, once Josie's closest friend and confidant, betrayed her in an unimaginable way. Now, Josie has finally put down roots in New York, settling into domestic life with her partner Caleb, and that's where she intends to stay.

The only problem is that she has lied to Caleb about every detail of her past—starting with...
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